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Anyone who has paid the entry fee to visit Shakespeare's Birthplace on Henley Street in Stratford-upon-Avon—and there are some 700,000 a year who do so—might be forgiven for taking the authenticity of the building for granted. The house, as the official guidebooks state, was purchased by Shakespeare's father, John Shakespeare, in two stages in 1556 and 1575, and William was born and brought up there. The street itself might have changed through the...
| Автор | Julia Thomas |
In the late eighteenth century, British print culture took a diagrammatic and accentual turn. In graphs of emphasis and tonal inflection, in signs for indicating poetic stress, and in tabulations of punctuation, elocutionists, grammarians, and prosodists deployed new typographic marks and measures to represent English speech on the page. At the same time, cartographers and travel writers published reconfigurations of landscape on large-scale topographical maps, in geometric surveys, and in...
| Автор | Julia S. Carlson |
The letter is a powerfully evocative form that has gained in resonance as the habits of personal letter writing have declined in a digital age. But faith in the letter as evidence of the intimate thoughts of individuals underplays the sophisticated ways letters functioned in the past. In Cultures of Correspondence in Early Modern Britain leading scholars approach the letter from a variety of disciplinary perspectives to uncover the habits, forms, and secrets of letter writing. Where material...
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Dos ancianos que se encuentran de forma casual en un puente, son los protagonistas de esta historia. La inquietante luna de plata genera la apertura de un portal que los lanza hacia mundos extraños y peligrosos, donde investigan y aprenden secretos de los antiguos; una raza extinta cuya tecnología no sólo les confiere poder, sino también juventud.
| Автор | Omar Casas |
For Vivian R. Pollak, Emily Dickinson's work is an extended meditation on the risks of social, psychological, and aesthetic difference that would be taken up by the generations of women poets who followed her. She situates Dickinson's originality in relation to her nineteenth-century audiences, including poet, novelist, and Indian rights activist Helen Hunt Jackson and her controversial first editor, Mabel Loomis Todd, and traces the emergence of competing versions of a brilliant but...
| Автор | Vivian R. Pollak |
In the long nineteenth century, the specter of lost manuscripts loomed in the imagination of antiquarians, historians, and writers. Whether by war, fire, neglect, or the ravages of time itself, the colonial history of the United States was perceived as a vanishing record, its archive a hoard of materially unsound, temporally fragmented, politically fraught, and endangered documents. Colonial Revivals traces the labors of a nineteenth-century cultural network of antiquarians, bibliophiles,...
| Автор | Lindsay DiCuirci |
The game of chess reached western Europe by the year 1000, and within several generations it had become one of the most popular pastimes ever. Both men and women, and even priests played the game despite the Catholic Church's repeated prohibitions. Characters in countless romances, chansons de geste , and moral tales of the eleventh through twelfth centuries also played chess, which often symbolized romantic attraction or sexual consummation. In Power Play , Jenny Adams looks to medieval...
| Автор | Jenny Adams |
Lor es una joven de dieciocho años obsesionada con la desaparición de su hermano. Tras tres años de escasas respuestas y prohibiciones extrañas, consigue regresar a su pueblo natal, lugar donde sucedió. Alma le enseñará a nuestra protagonista que toda leyenda tiene una parte de realidad, y que las viejas historias están más relacionadas con ella de lo que creía.
| Автор | Irene Recio Honrado |
A Noble Queen is a novel written by Philip Meadows Taylor that illustrates one of the most important epochs in the history of the Dekhan. The book features the life of the noble Queen Chand Beebee whose memory is reverenced, not only as the preserver of Beejapoor, but for the heroic resistance she made to the Moghul armies in their first invasion of the Dekhan and siege of Ahmednugger.
| Автор | Taylor Meadows |
In the early modern period, England radically expanded its participation in an economy that itself was becoming increasingly global. Yet less than twenty years after the highly profitable English East India Company made its first voyage, England was suffering from an economic depression, blamed largely on the shortage of coin necessary to exploit those very same profitable routes. How could there be profit in the face of so much loss, and loss in the face of so much profit? In Tragicomic...
| Автор | Valerie Forman |
What does it mean for a child to be a «reader» and how did American culture come to place such a high value on this identity? Reading Children offers a history of the relationship between children and books in Anglo-American modernity, exploring long-lived but now forgotten early children's literature, discredited yet highly influential pedagogical practices, the property lessons inherent in children's book ownership, and the emergence of childhood itself as a literary property. The...
| Автор | Patricia Crain |
Richard Stonley has all but vanished from history, but to his contemporaries he would have been an enviable figure. A clerk of the Exchequer for more than four decades under Mary Tudor and Elizabeth I, he rose from obscure origins to a life of opulence; his job, a secure bureaucratic post with a guaranteed income, was the kind of which many men dreamed. Vast sums of money passed through his hands, some of which he used to engage in moneylending and land speculation. He also bought books, lots of...
| Автор | Jason Scott-Warren |
This book purports to be a manuscript dictated by a strange being named I-Am-The-Man to a man named Llewyllyn Drury. Drury's adventure culminates in a trek through a cave in Kentucky into the core of the earth. It blends passages on the nature of physical phenomena, such as gravity and volcanoes, with spiritualist speculation and adventure-story elements (like traversing a landscape of giant mushrooms).
| Автор | John Uri Lloyd |
Amsterdam is ranked as Europe’s eighth most popular tourist destination.Includes brand-new stories by: Michael Berg, Anneloes Timmerije, Murat Isik, René Appel, Josh Pachter, Simon De Waal, Hanna Bervoets, Karin Amatmoekrim, Christine Otten, Mensje van Keulen, Max van Olden, Theo Capel, Loes Den Hollander, Herman Koch, Abdelkader Benali, and Walter Van Den Berg.The following contributors are based domestically: Maria de Bruyn (Chapel Hill, NC).We have licensed the Dutch language rights to...
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The Canadian Noir Series titles, Montreal & Toronto have done very well for us and we're delighted to finally add another major Canadian city to the series.Features brand-new stories by: Linda L. Richards, Timothy Taylor, Sheena Kamal, Robin Spano, Carleigh Baker, Sam Wiebe, Dietrich Kalteis, Nathan Ripley, Yasuko Thanh, Kristi Charish, Don English, Nick Mamatas, S.G. Wong, and R.M. Greenaway.The following contributors are based domestically: Linda L. Richards (splits time between Paso...
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Brand-new stories by: Paco Ignacio Taibo II, Eugenio Aguirre, Eduardo Antonia Parra, Bernardo Fernández Bef, Óscar de la Borbolla, Rolo Díez, Victor Luiz González, F.G. Haghenbeck, Juan Hernández Luna, Myriam Laurini, Eduardo Monteverde, and Julia Rodríguez.Paco Ignacio Taibo II was born in Gijón, Spain, and has lived in Mexico since 1958. He is the author of numerous works of fiction and nonfiction, which have been published in many...
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The editor, Chris Abani, is an award-winning novelist and poet (PEN USA Freedom-to-Write Award, the Prince Claus Award, a Lannan Literary Fellowship, a California Book Award, a Hurston/Wright Legacy Award, a PEN Beyond the Margins Award, the PEN Hemingway Book Prize, and a Guggenheim Award)Through his TED Talks, public speaking and essays Abani is known as an international voice on humanitarianism, art, ethics, and our shared political responsibilityHe is Board of Trustees Professor of English...
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Eine junge Frau gerät in ein sexuelles Abenteuer voller Lust, das im Laufe der Verbindung zu einer lustvollen Unterwerfung führt. Gehörig und diszipliniert folgt sie den Befehlen ihres Masters. Ein spannendes BDSM Werk. Doch der Master hat noch ganz andere Pläne mit seiner naiven Gefährtin. Eine Herausforderung beginnt, die nicht nur erotische Eindrücke enthält, sondern auch eine Geschichte, die weit zurück in der Vergangenheit führt.
| Автор | Silke Andrea Gerber |
De empregada de mesa a rainha por conveniência.Antes de subir ao trono, o príncipe Remirez de Montegova tinha dois problemas: encontrar uma esposa e solucionar o escândalo causado pela bela Maddie Myers, uma simples empregada de um café. Ao casar com ela, parecia tudo resolvido. Mas uma noite ardente entre eles vai criar-lhe um problema novo…
| Автор | Maya Blake |
Natasha Beale se quedó horrorizada al descubrir que su guía en el safari iba a ser Tom Scanlon, el hombre que la había abandonado. Tendría que pasar dos semanas a solas con él, en plena naturaleza, rodeados por animales salvajes. Seguía sintiéndose dolida y traicionada, pero necesitaba que él la protegiese día y noche. Era una situación demasiado íntima para dos ex amantes, y estaba segura de que Tom lo había planeado todo para estar a solas con ella…
| Автор | Elizabeth Duke |
The romance novel has the strange distinction of being the most popular but least respected of literary genres. While it remains consistently dominant in bookstores and on best-seller lists, it is also widely dismissed by the critical community. Scholars have alleged that romance novels help create subservient readers, who are largely women, by confining heroines to stories that ignore issues other than love and marriage. Pamela Regis argues that such critical studies fail to take into...
| Автор | Pamela Regis |
Chosen by the American Library Association as a 2012 Notable Book in Poetry.Beauty is a Verb is a ground-breaking anthology of disability poetry, essays on disability, and writings on the poetics of both. Crip Poetry. Disability Poetry. Poems with Disabilities. This is where poetry and disability intersect, overlap, collide and make peace. "[BEAUTY IS A VERB] is going to be one of the defining collections of the 21st century…the discourse between ability, identity & poetry will never...
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"An extraordinary volume that provides nothing less than a detailed cognitive mapping of the terrain for everyone who wants to engage in radical politics."—Slavoj Žižek, author of Living in the End Times“Keywords for Radicals recognizes that language is both a weapon and terrain of struggle, and that all of us committed to changing our social and material reality, to making a world justice-rich and oppression-free, cannot drop words such as...
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Emelie beschließt, an ihrem siebzehnten Geburtstag zu sterben. Eine seltene Krankheit lässt sie im Zeitraffer altern. Nur noch ein einziger Gedanke beschäftigt sie: Wie kann ich die Zeit anhalten? Zusammen mit dem Außenseiter Fynn begibt sie sich in einem alten Leichenwagen auf eine abenteuerliche Reise …
| Автор | Daniel Mylow |